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#Iamwhole Worldwide 10-20% of children and young people experience mental health difficulties. Poor mental health is costing more and more children and young people their education and their employment prospects. And without action, it is costing them their lives. Despite the considerable numbers affected, there is still a stigma associated with experiencing mental health difficulties. […] Read more…

Did you know that only 40% of the countries require climate education in the school curricular? School is supposed to prepare us for our future. Education in climate change and its solutions is a vital part of solving the crisis. Without an educated future generation, who will know what to do?

Only three days left until the end of COP23! Ministers and Head of states are arriving to give their final statements on the process of COP and negotiators are glad to finally get home. How fast time passes by.

Todays is Gender Day at COP23 on which we raise awareness of the inequality gap between the genders. You might ask yourself why gender is a question when it comes to building a sustainable climate and why we have to fight for it in the negotiations.

Climate activists from around the world are coming together at COP 23 Fiji! Everyone is a part of the negotiations, because together, we want to find solution for climate change. For me, a young climate activist, COP 23 an overwhelming experience. Being part of an international, global network and feeling the atmosphere of decampment to […] Read more…

Empowering youth is the reason why the YMCA is here at the climate negotiations. We work together, not only to get a good agreement and result at the negotiations. It is just as much about getting inspired and motivated to go back home and continue the real task: Empowering our communities so we can make the change we need.

Climate Finance concerns the money that (mainly the developed countries) should provide for the purpose of mitigating and adapting to climate change. In the Paris Agreement, the parties decided to provide 100 billion dollars each year by 2020. What may you ask about Climate Finance? This blogpost is about one of the big topics at this year’s conference.